Ellipsis

:This article is not about the ellipse, the flattened circle shape.

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Ellipse - Circle

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Ellipsis Έλλειψις (plural: ellipses ελλείψεις, Greek for omission) in linguistics refers to any omitted part of speech that is understood; i.e. the omission is intentional. Analogously, in printing and writing, the term refers to the row of three dots (…) or asterisks (* * *) indicating such an intentional omission. This punctuation mark is also called a suspension point, points of elipsis or colloquially, dot-dot-dot.

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Linguistics - Printing - Writing

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An ellipsis can also be used to indicate a pause in speech or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence.

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